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Today feels like a good day. Enjoy my mini vacation before I start my new job. Going to a start a gym membership for my husband and I today and go workout. Just had my bpc coffee and beef bone broth with bouillon. Working on getting a bit more water in me before I begin my workout.

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Thanks both for confirming what I already thought. I shall ask for the burger with no bun & some salad & take my own dressing

just an fyi, in case you forget your dressing, you could always ask for vinegar and oil, and usually something like a blue cheese dressing will be relatively safe for every once in a while. I know that there is a probability that they use less than desirable oil sources, but the rare occasion is not going to do that much damage. Also watch out for the condiments on the burger, that is where you will often find hidden sugar.

Chris
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain."
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Hi all. Not caught up yet, but too anxious to read through all the new posts - 8 pages of them. Oy!

I'm starting fresh today. I'm doubling up - 21 day sugar detox and EMF. I have no obstacles to worry about until March 30th (my grandmother's 75th birthday) and the obstacle there is going to be grain free cake (my aunt has jumped on the gluten free approach as well so I shared with her the gluten free cake mixes out there. She plans to make one for the party). Anyhow, that's almost a month away at this point, so I have plent of time to regain control.

Need to read through the Fat Fast cookbook to see what kind of things I can use to boost fat.

Also, posted in the recipe group an eBook with low carb breakfast ideas in it. I got it for $5.99 after using a discount code you can find on the site. The book looks pretty good, but I haven't scrutinized it yet. The problem with eBook is that you can't scrutinize them before buying them, like you can if you go to a Barnes and Noble and buy a hardcover book... that's my only complaint regarding ebooks... there's no review period.

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just an fyi, in case you forget your dressing, you could always ask for vinegar and oil, and usually something like a blue cheese dressing will be relatively safe for every once in a while. I know that there is a probability that they use less than desirable oil sources, but the rare occasion is not going to do that much damage. Also watch out for the condiments on the burger, that is where you will often find hidden sugar.

Thanks will report back

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Good morning everyone!
I just need to give myself a public pat on the back: I went for an hour hike with just my dog yesterday morning - my first physical activity in a very long time. The weather was perfect and the desert is just starting to green up.
Then I started preparing a dinner I was having for old friends visiting from out of town. I didn't want to change my menu to include anything non-primal, and I didn't want to have to explain anything either.
I made a spinach salad with avocados, roasted grape tomatoes and full fat Italian dressing. Then I served three recipes from Everyday Paleo: Family Cookbook by Sarah Fragoso. Slow Cooker Chicken Curry served over Riced Cauliflower and Roasted Squash Bites. They brought two bottles of red wine (perfect!). Everything came out great, my guests loved everything, and nobody missed the absent starches. I was so proud of how everything looked and tasted! (I tried to take a photo but my camera battery was dead! Crap...).
Anyway, I just wanted to share something good on a Monday morning... Hope everyone has a great week!

"Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, 'Give me a lot of bacon and eggs.' What I said was, 'Give me all the bacon and eggs you have'. Do you understand?" - Ron Swanson

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I am working on getting back into ketosis, with the goal of losing weight. I had surgery in Jan with a really tough recovery, was eating for pain control (not good) and exercise restrictions. Now fully cleared for activity, and need to get back into the swing of things!

I have been working out hard and clean paleo eating for about 3 weeks now, with only a 2 lb weight loss. Frustrating. Last week I realized that I need to get back into ketosis, so started modifying eating accordingly. I am now doing a 16-18 hour fast daily (through breakfast), then lunch and dinner with no snacks between or after. I have been using MFP to start tracking, and working on getting my macros under proportion. I am amazed at the quick add up of calories!

For example, today (so far):

Tea with 1 tb HWC (alright, for the purists, I technically 'broke' the fast here with 20 cals)

For a grand total of 720 calories!! My goal in 1200/day, so I have 480 left over for the day. Macros for this salad are dead on 77/15/7, but kripes a 480 calorie dinner is tough! Any suggestions on how to modify this?

I am exercising 5 days/week, with boosting daily activity also (more walking). Hoping to see some forward progress soon. Yesterday during a fasted workout I finally hit stinky ketosis breath, so maybe I will start losing soon.

I am a 38 y.o female, 5'5", 170 lbs right now. Goal is 140. I will be weighing frequently, as my issue is ignoring the scale and saying 'I feel thinner!" with a heavy dose of denial. I need that objective check in to keep me on track.

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This has been a revelation to me too since starting EMF. I used to quite happily eat a large chicken breast in a single portion & think I was being good. Now I know a correct portion size for me is approx 3oz a single chicken now lasts me 5-7 meals instead of 2, which is great news since I am on a stupidly tight budget at the moment. It also means, of course, that eating grass fed or organic should not break the bank as the extra cost can be off-set by the money saved using the correct portion control

NB: I used to buy a small kebab (meat & salad only) from the local vendor occasionally & split it into 2 meals. Now I would have to split it into 3 to keep within my daily macros

I think a lot of the western worlds obesity issues have stemmed from fast food vendors & restaurants introducing stupid portion sizes.

I am a 38 y.o female, 5'5", 170 lbs right now. Goal is 140. I will be weighing frequently, as my issue is ignoring the scale and saying 'I feel thinner!" with a heavy dose of denial. I need that objective check in to keep me on track.

Don't really have any suggestions for dinner calories...I'm still struggling a bit to get my macros right. I have to weigh everyday to keep myself on track...I definitely have a denial streak.

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This is based on the formula in the first post of this thread and is a good place to start.

Your BMR (cals your body would burn in a coma) is about 1500 as well. You should not eat under your BMR. You could force your body to slow down your metabolism. With exercise you are burning 2000 cals.

For a grand total of 720 calories!! My goal in 1200/day, so I have 480 left over for the day. Macros for this salad are dead on 77/15/7, but kripes a 480 calorie dinner is tough! Any suggestions on how to modify this?

I am exercising 5 days/week, with boosting daily activity also (more walking). Hoping to see some forward progress soon. Yesterday during a fasted workout I finally hit stinky ketosis breath, so maybe I will start losing soon.

I am a 38 y.o female, 5'5", 170 lbs right now. Goal is 140. I will be weighing frequently, as my issue is ignoring the scale and saying 'I feel thinner!" with a heavy dose of denial. I need that objective check in to keep me on track.

What I usually do is to track everything I want to eat, before I eat it, in MFP. Then I look at the macros and totals and see if it is workable-ie. are the numbers falling in line and do I have enough left for the rest of the day. I have now gotten into the habit of pre-tracking the whole day, this gives me better control to decide where and how I want to spend my macros.

For today, fish and chicken are pretty cheap caloried nutrition, as well as leafy greens say some spinach with a cream sauce.

p.s. I don't think there are any purists on this thread (at least I hope not).

Chris
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain."
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This was the first day in about 2 weeks I've worked out and OMG, I could definitely tell a difference in my lifting ability. I was still using the same weights I always have (12 pound dumbbells) but they were so much lighter? I ended up increasing my reps and the slowed down the moves and got a killer workout in. Felt good, real good.